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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400 |
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Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the supreme |
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> keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the pinultimate |
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> ruler of mankind... Has "asked" me to put Linux on his desktop computer... |
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> It seems he has become weary of maintaining/re-installed his beloved XP... |
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> Life is good. |
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> Cheers, Jerry |
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> P.S. the next to be converted beneath my humble roof is my wife... Stay tuned. |
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There must be something in the air. My 10 year old son Miles and I have |
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an ongoing friendly banter about the relative merits of windows and |
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linux. He has windows software at school and games to play after all. |
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Anyway last night he was reading a section in the latest APC magazine |
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about the latest innovations in linux desktops, and comparing linux to |
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vista. He suddenly asked if he could obtain SuSE 10.1. I said "I think |
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its on the cover DVD". He said "Can I install it then?". Knowing that |
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there was an unused 35G partition on the hard drive awaiting a linux |
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install I said "go for it". |
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So I looked over his shoulder and made sure he didn't junk the windows |
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partition. I advised him on the choice between kde and gnome, and |
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assured that the other would still be available to install later. Other |
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than that he did the whole thing. |
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By the time he went to bed it was running and he'd been on the net using |
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firefox and checked that runescape (online java game) worked. By the |
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time I got up this morning he was setting up his RSS feeds in kontact |
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and configuring various other bits. |
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Pretty good I thought. Not sure whether it says something about Miles, |
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or about SuSE's ease of installation (probably both). He has used linux |
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before, and is pretty computer literate (gaining a "High Distinction" |
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in an international exam, batting against kids 2 years older), but |
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neither those exams nor school do much to prepare you for installing a |
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different OS. |
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